ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
🇨🇦 We are a small team of Canadians trying to convince our politicians and government agencies to stop using U.S. based social media platforms and embrace the Fediverse. We need your help to accomplish this objective and hope you will join us to secure our Digital Sovereignty. Please take part in our communication projects when we ask for volunteers and boost our messages to increase awareness. Follow the hashtag #MastoCanadaGOV for the latest updates.
thecanadian.social
ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
🇨🇦 We are a small team of Canadians trying to convince our politicians and government agencies to stop using U.S. based social media platforms and embrace the Fediverse. We need your help to accomplish this objective and hope you will join us to secure our Digital Sovereignty. Please take part in our communication projects when we ask for volunteers and boost our messages to increase awareness. Follow the hashtag #MastoCanadaGOV for the latest updates.
thecanadian.social
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
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Mar 08, 2026
Teaser:
This #Plushtodon, a recent immigrant to Canada, is checking out our Mastodon feed. How did they get my password?
They are excitedly looking for updates on how our community is convincing politicians to dump U.S. based social media and join the #Fediverse. It's almost like they have a vested interest in your activities and efforts. Hmm....
#MastodonCanada #MastoCanadaGOV #DigitalSovereignty #Technology
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Action Jay 🐾 
@action_jay@mstdn.ca
Fun me: Dad joke dispensery. World builder and Dungeon Master. Raising kids to be geeks, gaming with a close knit crew and wilding out about damn near everything. Ultimate wife guy champion. Serious me: Tech Support facilitator. Union Steward. Antifascist and Luddite. On the front line of the war between human and capital. The boot will never lick you back. Fuck big tech in new and interesting ways at every opportunity.
mstdn.ca
Action Jay 🐾
@action_jay@mstdn.ca
Fun me: Dad joke dispensery. World builder and Dungeon Master. Raising kids to be geeks, gaming with a close knit crew and wilding out about damn near everything. Ultimate wife guy champion. Serious me: Tech Support facilitator. Union Steward. Antifascist and Luddite. On the front line of the war between human and capital. The boot will never lick you back. Fuck big tech in new and interesting ways at every opportunity.
mstdn.ca
@action_jay@mstdn.ca
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Mar 07, 2026
I really, really wish my friends in the #SaskNDP were posting these to open social networks. Jordan McPhail does such a great job here but it is, like, physically painful to click through to Facebook to watch it
#skpoli #MastoCanadaGOV
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2814054565607653
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ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
🇨🇦 We are a small team of Canadians trying to convince our politicians and government agencies to stop using U.S. based social media platforms and embrace the Fediverse. We need your help to accomplish this objective and hope you will join us to secure our Digital Sovereignty. Please take part in our communication projects when we ask for volunteers and boost our messages to increase awareness. Follow the hashtag #MastoCanadaGOV for the latest updates.
thecanadian.social
ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
🇨🇦 We are a small team of Canadians trying to convince our politicians and government agencies to stop using U.S. based social media platforms and embrace the Fediverse. We need your help to accomplish this objective and hope you will join us to secure our Digital Sovereignty. Please take part in our communication projects when we ask for volunteers and boost our messages to increase awareness. Follow the hashtag #MastoCanadaGOV for the latest updates.
thecanadian.social
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
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Feb 21, 2026
Over the course of today, at a leisurely rate, I think we'll do a roundup of European efforts regarding #DigitalSovereignty and #DigitalIndependance. Europe and Canada have both struggled with this issue, but it's fair to say our allies across the Atlantic have been far more progressive and Digital Sovereignty has far more awareness with citizens and individual governments.
#MastodonCanada ##MastoCanadaGOV
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ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
🇨🇦 We are a small team of Canadians trying to convince our politicians and government agencies to stop using U.S. based social media platforms and embrace the Fediverse. We need your help to accomplish this objective and hope you will join us to secure our Digital Sovereignty. Please take part in our communication projects when we ask for volunteers and boost our messages to increase awareness. Follow the hashtag #MastoCanadaGOV for the latest updates.
thecanadian.social
ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
🇨🇦 We are a small team of Canadians trying to convince our politicians and government agencies to stop using U.S. based social media platforms and embrace the Fediverse. We need your help to accomplish this objective and hope you will join us to secure our Digital Sovereignty. Please take part in our communication projects when we ask for volunteers and boost our messages to increase awareness. Follow the hashtag #MastoCanadaGOV for the latest updates.
thecanadian.social
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
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Jan 31, 2026
Some important reporting this week from @thetyee@mstdn.ca regarding the challenge for our government to achieve #DigitalSovereignty. The will appears to exist but there's very little doing. Europe is ahead of Canada at this point with multiple municipalities implementing Linux, LibreOffice and local cloud providers. It's time our government started taking concrete action.
It's like eating an elephant. Take it one small bite at a time.
#MastoCanadaGOV #MastodonCanada
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/01/29/Big-Tech-Spearheads-US-Threat-Canada/
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Robert W. Gehl
@rwg@aoir.social
Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University. My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" was published by Oxford University Press late 2025. Been on the fediverse since 2017. I'm now helping run AoIR.social he/him Trans rights are human rights. I boost #BlackMastodon and #MutualAid posts. I also call for alt text for accessibility.
aoir.social
Robert W. Gehl
@rwg@aoir.social
Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University. My latest book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" was published by Oxford University Press late 2025. Been on the fediverse since 2017. I'm now helping run AoIR.social he/him Trans rights are human rights. I boost #BlackMastodon and #MutualAid posts. I also call for alt text for accessibility.
aoir.social
@rwg@aoir.social
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Jan 28, 2026
Yesterday I met with a bunch of folks who plan on advocating for politicians, municipalities, journalists, and others to set up accounts on the #fediverse. The focus is on Canada. I'm totally on board for it, because I've long advocated for folks to leave corporate social media, and let's face it... that's an area dominated by US corporations.
Democratic deliberation in Canada is far too important to trust to US corporations.
#MastoCanadaGov
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ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
🇨🇦 We are a small team of Canadians trying to convince our politicians and government agencies to stop using U.S. based social media platforms and embrace the Fediverse. We need your help to accomplish this objective and hope you will join us to secure our Digital Sovereignty. Please take part in our communication projects when we ask for volunteers and boost our messages to increase awareness. Follow the hashtag #MastoCanadaGOV for the latest updates.
thecanadian.social
ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
🇨🇦 We are a small team of Canadians trying to convince our politicians and government agencies to stop using U.S. based social media platforms and embrace the Fediverse. We need your help to accomplish this objective and hope you will join us to secure our Digital Sovereignty. Please take part in our communication projects when we ask for volunteers and boost our messages to increase awareness. Follow the hashtag #MastoCanadaGOV for the latest updates.
thecanadian.social
@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty@thecanadian.social
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Jan 24, 2026
Calling on MastoCanucks to reach out to MP Dominique O'Rouke to launch an account on Mastodon. The Fediverse is a far superior alternative to X and it appears she would be motivated to switch. We will assist in launching and promoting her account once she gets setup.
Thanks to @hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca for the tip.
#MastoCanadaGOV
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/guelph-liberal-mp-dominique-orourke-twitter-x-grok-pause-posts-9.7058090
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